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f UNITED .STATES PATENTl l OFFICE.

HENRY s. REYNOLDS, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

LAST-BLOCK FAST-EN ER.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,439, dated February 7, .18538.

Application filed February 4, 1 887. Serial No. 226,554. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY S. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Lasts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

' in use to be entirely ineffective; and, again, as

compared with the cost of the last itself, a great many of the more perfect of these are exceedingly expensive, due to their complicated nature. y f

The object of this invention is to'provide simplified and effective devices for enabling the last-block to be easily andquickly withdrawn from the shoewith no material alteration of the last itself, and also to economize in time, labor, and expense. over many formerinf ventions for a like purpose, all as will more fully appear from the description hereinafter following, whentaken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of the last with the block removed. Fig. 2 is a lo-ngitudinal sectional view of the last having its block in place, showing the manner in which the two are held together, and also illustrating the manner of separating the block by the insertion of a suitable instrument. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the last with its block removed, the same being intended as a' modification. Y

Reference being had to vthe several parts by the letters lmarked thereon, A represents a shoe-last of the ordinary well-known form, and B represents its removable or detachable block, the forward end of the latter being beveled, as at a, and ittin g against the correspondingly-shaped portion,b, at the toe of the former.

resort to a simple iiat spring of sufficient elas- Patent, isw For the purpose of enabling the' block B to be automatically secured in place uponthe last f and readily detached therefrom while in the shoe, I form in the top of the last an, oblong cavity or. recess, c, the bottom of which 7is of unequal-depths, or, in other words, sunken, as

at d, to permit of the proper operation ofxthe securing-plate C, secured at one end within the 6o cavitycandextending lengthwise thereof, with its upper side flush or even with the upper surface of the'last, the free end of said plate terminating at vthe sunken 'point d of the cavity." i

` Beneath the plate C is located ya piece'of rub- Y 65 I.

ber, e, for thepurpose of restoring it to position after being depressed. f

D D represent screws secured in thelast at opposite sides of the cavity or recess c, a por`V tion of whose heads extend within the cavity, 7o

leaving a space beneath them sufficient for the receptin of the head of a similar screw, E, securedin the last-block at a point by which to bring it centrally between when the block is in place.`l Y j It is obvious that on slipping the block down into place the plate C will be depressed into, the cavity c far enough to allow the head-of screw E to pass beneath or under the heads of screws D D, and thatthe said plate o will be so i.

restored bythe action of the rubber cushion e.v To remove the block, it is simply necessary` to insert the ordinary hook, g, through the opening h, formed in the block, and press slightly downward on the plate, and then draw backwardly., iAs shown in Fig. 3, instead of employing the plate Gand rubber cushion e, I f

ticity to act in the manner desired; but in pracr tice I prefer the use of the plate and rubber. y9o y From the foregoing'description it will beseenf that myinvention is very simple and inexpensive, in thatv I dispense with the use of sockets and pinsV and resort to the use only of three ordinary screws and a simple plate or spring by which to obtain the fastening of the block'to the last.y No specially-formed instrument is` required to depress the spring or plate for the removal of theblock, since the form of hook f shown is the one ordinarily employed for simi-A 10cy lar purposes. t, l

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1. The combination 0f the last A, having inclined offset recess c provided at opposite sides 0f its inner extremity with screws the heads 0f which are flush with the upper surface of said last and extend partly into the recess, a solid flat spring secured to the last extending tothe edges of the screw-heads and adapted to be depressed in the recess, and the lust-block Aprovided on its under surface with a screw Whose head is adapted to interlock with those of the last and the free end 0f the spring, substan tially as described.

2. In a last, the combination, with the lust W'ituesses:

FREDK. GARRAGAN, THORNE S. WTALLING.` 

